Chapter 101
Chapter 101
After Ming Shu fled into the bedroom to hide last night, he didn't hear any more movement.
His complexion is not very good-looking, the algae must have been put on by that unknown creature last night, this pattern... Did he do it on purpose?
All other teammates' costumes were taken away, only his was still there, and he didn't understand what the other party meant.
Ming Shu woke up early, and there was no one else on the street, so he took a pack of toilet paper and garbage bags, carefully opened the door and looked around.
He went outside the window and wiped the algae off the glass with a paper towel.
The transparent glass returned to its original state, Ming Shu heaved a sigh of relief, and quietly looked around.
The townspeople were all doing their own things. A family across the street was watering the flowers with a watering can, and a few children carrying snacks ran past laughing.
Now it seems that everything in the town is normal, but the sky is always gray and the sun cannot penetrate.
It was the same yesterday. When the three of them went to the abandoned farm and cemetery, the weather there was better. When they returned to the small town, the gloomy sky returned.
Mingshu threw the algae in the garbage bag into the trash can by the side of the road, turned around and saw the leading NPC standing behind him.
His approaching was silent, Ming Shu was already nervous and looked at him warily.
The npc was also looking at Mingshu, and looked over with probing eyes: "You..."
Then he showed his usual smile: "Did you sleep well last night?"
"Thank you for your concern," Ming Shu said politely, "It's not bad."
The npc nodded: "That's good."
He turned around, glanced at Mingshu's house without a trace, and walked away quickly.
When the npc left, Mingshu found a palm-sized pumpkin on the handrail in front of his door.
The pumpkin was intact and looked exactly like the one that the npc crushed in front of him yesterday.
Ming Shu looked at the back of the NPC leaving, went back to the house, took another garbage bag, and threw the pumpkin away.
He sent a message to Xia Zhu, and Xia Zhu also said that there was a little pumpkin in front of his door, which was there yesterday, but he didn't care.
The two agreed to meet at their respective places last night, and messages kept popping up in the team formation information on the way.
[In team formation] Shan Qi: The other players are the same, their supplies have been robbed, and no one can protect them
[In team formation] Shan Qi: It seems that we have to go to the farm again today, but I guess there will be unknown creatures coming to snatch it at night.
[In team formation] Shan Qi: Also, only one person can enter a house
He said that he wanted to enter his companion's house, but he couldn't get in when he reached the door. He had to take the key to the door to enter normally, but his companion couldn't enter without the key.
Ming Shu paused slightly. The mysterious person who rescued them yesterday also said that they cannot live together.
The players didn't know this rule when they first came in. Without him, even if Ming Shu and Xia Zhu escaped from the monster, they would not be able to safely hide in the house together, and one person would be forced to stay outside.
The town got dark too early. To be on the safe side, they had better go back at six o'clock in the afternoon.
When they arrived at the place where they parted ways last night, Xia Zhu had already arrived, squatting on the side of the road and waiting.
Seeing Ming Shu's figure, he immediately went up to him: "You didn't bring a wizard robe?"
"No," Ming Shu said, "I hid in the room."
It is inconvenient to wear a robe every day, and those unknown creatures should only appear at night to snatch supplies.
Xia Zhu rolled up his sleeves, revealing a few scratches on his arms.
"Those bats are really big." He looked scared, and gestured with his hands, "If I dodge a little later, it will be my trachea that will be cut."
The two fangs found yesterday are gone, and the mission needs to be done again.
So they found the supplies so smoothly yesterday, it doesn't mean that the task can be completed easily.
The two were discussing on the side of the road, and there were many people coming and going around them, and this is where the two monsters died last night.
Ming Shu still remembered that after the monster died, there was a small amount of blood oozing from the wound, and the ground was also stained. Looking at it now, everything was clean, as if what happened last night had never happened.
He looked away, took out half a piece of bread in his pocket and took a bite: "Let's go to the cemetery again."
"I think so too," Xia Zhu responded, "Maybe we have to deal with the bats at night... Bats are afraid of smoke, so I'll go to the shop to see it later."
Bats should be the easiest to deal with. Xia Zhu's luck is pretty good. If he meets a chainsaw killer like Shan Qi...he doesn't have much chance of winning.
Although it's a good thing that Mingshu's robe was not taken away, he still has a ghost city to go to, so tonight may not be safe.
Xia Zhu asked about last night's situation again, Ming Shu hesitated to speak, and finally told him about the algae that appeared on the window glass.
"Heart pattern?" Xia Zhu's expression was complicated, "You...have you seen the face of that unknown creature clearly?"
There was something in his words, Ming Shu was taken aback, and immediately denied: "Impossible."
It shouldn't be possible... right?Ming Shu intuited that it was the mysterious person who saved them last night.
Is there more than one?
Ming Shu's expression gradually became serious, and he squeezed the bread in his hand tightly.
But he is afraid of ghosts... and in the previous dungeons, as long as he confirmed that the npc was Yuan Chen, he basically had confidence in the mission, but this time it was different.
He is in a strange town, he may bump into unknown creatures at any time, and he has no clue about the follow-up mission.
Ming Shu ate the last bite of bread, and when he looked up, he caught a glimpse of a figure under a tree in the distance, whose body was wet and whose face was stained with algae, staring straight at him.
His complexion changed, and he hurriedly stood up from the side of the road. In the blink of an eye, that figure disappeared again.
Xia Zhu also stood up: "What's wrong?"
With a pale face, Ming Shu pointed to the opposite street: "Just now, there was a person standing there..."
Xia Zhu didn't see anything, so he couldn't tell whether it was Ming Shu's hallucination caused by being too nervous, or something really followed him.
"If it's something in the swamp," Xia Zhu looked around vigilantly, "could it be a wizard? Or a wizard's ghost? How do we deal with this kind of thing?"
Ming Shu thought for a while, then choked out a sentence: "Buy some talisman paper?"
With lingering fears in his heart, he kept looking at the previous tree, but accidentally found another familiar figure standing at the corner at the end of the street, also quietly looking at them.
It was the npc who led the way. He seemed to sense that Mingshu had spotted him, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.
He seemed to be following them, Ming Shu felt uncomfortable, and immediately pulled Xia Zhu away from the spot.
The ownerless cemetery had to go again, and Shan Qi in the team was no longer with them. Ming Shu and Xia Zhu went to various shops to look around first, bought some things that might be useful, and then went to the cemetery to start afresh. Dig vampire fangs.
They did not forget to look for Devil City, and asked many townspeople along the way, and finally asked a child for clues.
"Amusement park?" Xia Zhu expressed doubts, "Could it be the Devil City in the amusement park?"
The child said that there is an amusement park in the north of the town that has been abandoned for more than ten years, and there is a place called Devil City inside, which seems to be a haunted house.
"Go and have a look," Ming Shu squeezed the pocket knife in his hand, "There are less than two days left."
He bought the knife in a shop. Although he didn't know if it would be useful against unknown creatures, it was at least a psychological comfort.
The main quest ends tomorrow night, and he can't delay any longer.
Xia Zhu found a cardboard box, packed the things they bought in it, and headed towards the amusement park with Mingshu.
Strange to say, most of the surrounding areas of the town seem to be abandoned, and the kid just now, obviously not yet ten years old, knows that there is a ghost city in the amusement park for more than ten years.
But Ming Shu didn't have the time to delve into these things right now, and the two rushed to find the amusement park north of the town before two o'clock in the afternoon.
The area around the amusement park was overgrown with weeds and was very desolate. The iron railings were stained and stained with rust. Looking inside from a distance, all kinds of damaged equipment were discarded at random. The tall Ferris wheel collapsed in half, and the cable car above it was crumbling.
There was no third person nearby, Xia Zhu walked ahead, and the two of them pushed aside the railing and entered the amusement park.
The amusement park is very large. After walking for about seven or eight minutes, Mingshu saw a small castle appearing in front of him, the walls covered with green vines.
There are iron railings on the outside of the castle, and a crooked sign hangs on it, with the words "Devil City" written on it.
Xia Zhu hid the cardboard box containing things in the bushes beside him, picked up a thick branch, weighed it in his hand: "Let's go."
The surroundings are quiet, the gate of Devil City is open, the inside is messy, thick dust is everywhere, the tiles are covered with stains, and the original appearance has long been lost.
The castle has three floors. The two searched the hall and each room in turn, but found nothing that might be supplies.
"The devil's tail..." Xia Zhu said to himself, "There doesn't seem to be anything related to the tail."
Ming Shu stood in the hall on the first floor, and wiped the handrail of the stairs with the tissue he brought with him, revealing the six-pointed star engraved on it.
"Isn't it here, there is another ghost city?" Ming Shu replied, but there was silence behind him, and the movement of Xia Zhu rummaging through the garbage in the corner also disappeared.
He immediately turned around: "Xia Zhu?"
The hall was empty, and Xia Zhu's figure was nowhere to be seen.
It is impossible for Xia Zhu to leave for no reason, Ming Shu's heart sank, and she called again, but there was no response from the castle.
He turned and walked towards the gate, wanting to look outside, when the heavy wooden door was suddenly closed with a "bang".
The strange situation came suddenly, Ming Shu hurriedly stepped forward to push the door, exerting all his strength, the door still remained motionless.
There were several "clicks" behind him, accompanied by the sound of viscous liquid stirring.
The light suddenly dimmed, from day to night, the lamps above the head lit up, covered with a layer of red light, and the surrounding environment also began to change.
The thick dust and dirt fell off automatically, revealing the white skin inside, which was covered with blood vessel-like things. If you look closely, it seems to be still rising and falling, like breathing.
Some bright red liquid slowly seeped to Mingshu's feet. He clenched the knife in his hand and mustered up the courage to turn around.
A round pit appeared in the center of the hall, inside the pit was dark red sand, and a pitch-black chair appeared out of thin air above it.
A figure was sitting on a chair, he was unusually tall, with a pair of black horns on both sides of his forehead, blue and black blood vessels all over his neck and side of his face, his scarlet pupils stared at Ming Shu.
Ming Shu opened his eyes wide, feeling both scared and unbelievable: "You..."
The unknown creature in front of him had a demon-like appearance, but a face he was very familiar with, at least five points similar to Yuan Chen.
So is he...
Ming Shu is still rational, and the Dragon Highnesses and Qing Ji in the previous dungeon also look like Yuan Chen, but none of them are.
Under uncertain circumstances, he couldn't easily approach the demon in front of him.
The demon rested one hand on the armrest of the chair, with bright red liquid dripping down from his fingertips. He stared at Mingshu closely: "A fresh sacrifice?"
Being able to speak means that there is still an opportunity to communicate.
Ming Shu hid the knife behind his back, and said calmly, "Sorry, I broke in by accident..."
Before he could finish his sentence, the demon raised his right hand, and Ming Shu's body was forced to rise up, slowly moving towards him.
Ming Shu couldn't move his limbs. He watched helplessly as he got closer and closer to the devil. He reached out with a hand, grabbed his wrist tightly and pulled him forward.
Ming Shu fell into the arms of the devil, the knife in his hand almost fell, he hurriedly stabilized his body: "I'm not a sacrifice..."
The devil turned a deaf ear to it, its rough fingertips brushed against the side of Ming Shu's neck, and leaned in to sniff lightly on his white and tender skin.
"It smells so good," his eyes revealed a long-suppressed longing. "It looks so pretty, so it must taste good."
The tip of his nose was filled with a strong smell of blood, whether it was from the mud below or from the devil himself, Ming Shu was extremely nervous.
He forced himself to calm down. The demon in front of him must be related to the mission. Instead of struggling needlessly, he might as well take this opportunity to find out the news
"I, I came here to find something." Ming Shu didn't dare to move, and said cautiously: "Do you know Devil's Tail?"
"Devil's Tail?"
Pressing the hot palm on Mingshu's back, stroking through the clothes, the devil's voice paused slightly: "Do you want my tail?"
"Still," the demon tightened his arms, and kept closer to Mingshu, whispering in his ear, "Want to be my bride?"
Ming Shu was stunned: "What... the bride?"
Maybe it was because he was in a good mood, and the "sacrifice" who took the initiative to appear in the castle was satisfactory in all aspects. When the devil raised his hand, a small wooden box flew from the corner behind him.
The wooden box was opened, and inside was a two-finger-thick tail, the whole body was black, the surface was like fine and smooth leather, and a small triangle grew at the slightly thinner end.
"Become my bride to be qualified to possess the Devil's Tail."
The tail was lying quietly in the wooden box, and suddenly moved.
It was still alive, Ming Shu was staring at the tail, caught off guard and was frightened, and then the wooden box slammed shut.
The demon pinched Ming Shu's chin and lifted it up, scrutinizing his face with an ambiguous tone: "Do you want it?"
Ming Shu took a few deep breaths: "...I want it."
He also wanted to ask what conditions were needed to become the devil's bride. In short, get the tail first.
The devil smiled, opened his lips and said, "Okay."
He hardly hesitated, and Ming Shu almost didn't react.
...Is that how you agreed?
The wooden box fell into Mingshu's hands, and the demon hugged him and got up, crossed the mud and brought him to the closed gate to put him down.
The devil hugged Mingshu from behind, and his tall body enveloped him completely.
"Tonight, I will come to you," he kissed Mingshu's ear tip, "my bride."
As soon as he finished speaking, he let go of Mingshu, the lamps in the hall went out, and the surroundings began to recover.
When everything calmed down, Mingshu looked back, and the demon was gone.
[Sub-quest 2: Obtaining supplies (2/[-])]
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Mingshu was holding the wooden box, and he still had an unreal feeling, was it too easy to get this tail?
But yesterday, the three of them got the mission materials so easily, but they were all robbed at night.
The demon said that he would come to him tonight, so he had to find a way to solve the situation at night before he could truly complete the task.
"Bang bang bang-"
"Mingshu?!"
Xia Zhu's anxious voice sounded outside the door, Ming Shu pulled the latch, and the door that had been tightly closed before was pushed open.
Seeing Ming Shu's safe and sound figure, Xia Zhu breathed a sigh of relief: "Are you okay? I didn't know what was going on just now, I was still talking to you, and as soon as I turned around, I went outside, and the door couldn't be opened... "
He was almost on his way back to town to get an ax when the door somehow opened again.
Ming Shu shook her head: "It's okay, I... got the tail."
Only then did Xia Zhu see Ming Shu holding a wooden box, and when he opened it, there was a tail inside.
This place is not suitable to stay for a long time, the devil may still be watching them from the dark, Ming Shu closed the box: "Let's go back first."
Xia Zhu nodded in response, and left in a hurry with Ming Shu, and found the cardboard box hidden in the bushes.
The two walked to the gate of the amusement park, and there was a figure standing outside the abandoned iron railing.
The npc looked at the wooden box in Mingshu's hand with a cold expression, "How did you get it?"
He seemed to be following them in the morning, Ming Shu hugged the wooden box tightly: "It doesn't seem to be your business."
The npc's face became darker, and he snorted coldly: "Give me the things."
Of course, Mingshu couldn't hand over the tail that he got with great difficulty, Xia Zhu stood in front of him: "Why should I give it to you?"
The npc stopped talking, drew a dagger from his body, and strode towards the two of them.
Xia Zhu also took out the pocket knife he bought from the shop, and with the other hand, he grasped the branch he picked up earlier, tilted his head and said to Ming Shu: "You go first."
At this time, a ghostly figure appeared behind the npc, holding his head with both hands and twisting it vigorously.
The sound of bones breaking came, and the npc's neck was twisted, and he lost his breath immediately.
The person who came with a mask on his face was the mysterious person who rescued them last night.
He stepped forward a few steps, and tightened Mingshu's wrist: "Go quickly, he will be resurrected."
Ming Shu was still not sure who he was, but subconsciously trusted him, and the three of them left the vicinity of the amusement park together and hid in a remote alley before stopping.
On the way to escape, Xia Zhu kept glancing at the mysterious man, hesitant to speak several times.
It should be safe now, he finally couldn't help it: "You are..."
Then, he saw the mysterious man take off his mask, and the voice stopped abruptly.
From not long ago until now, Ming Shu was the most silent one. He stared blankly at the familiar face in front of him, even breathing lightly.
Sang Yin took off her gloves, hugged Mingshu tightly, and sighed, "Why are you crying?"
Ming Shu was stunned for two seconds: "I didn't..."
"I received it." Sang Yin interrupted him, took his hand and squeezed it affectionately, "twice."
Ming Shu finally came to his senses and slowly opened his eyes wide.
He received the crying emoji he sent a few days ago.
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